The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-22


who seem to be perfectly oblivious to the
great wrong their children are committing
1t Is shame that these youngsters are al
lowed to bring the stuff here for the demon
alization of Others
w. T. Marsh an ex-Confederate soldier
living near Americas, has curiosity in the
shape of gutta percha finger ring made by
him during the war. Mr. Marsh was menu
Der of Company B.. Third Georgia regiment,
and had his left shoulder shattered by a
minnie ball at the battle of Malvern Hill
While recovering from his wound, he hol-
lowed out button of his coat into the ring,
which he ingeniously inlaid with several
fragments of bone taken from his broken
shoulder. The work is very neatly exc
cuted, and the ring. is as strong as when
first carved out. Mr.. Marsh values it very
highly, and exhibits it as a cherished me
mento of the late struggle
On Tuesday J. r. Jones, living near
Downs, in Catos or Ninety-fifth district,
brought some 200 pounds of nice honey to
Sandersville. The honey was raised in
pound section boxes, making it convenient
for robbing and handling. Mr. Jones is an
amateur in bee culture, and seems well
posted in The arts and methods necessary to
insure success. He now has forty stands,
and is striving to swell his number to 100.
In addition to flowers, wild and cultivated,
he sows bucRwheat and clover to increase
their honey stores. Mr. Jones is now rail
road agent at Chalker, and expects to move
to that place, where the forests of the Ogee-
chez will afford finer bee grounds
Gen. Lafayette McLaws, of Savannah,
delivered a lecture at the court house in
Sylvania Thursday night, on the Battle of
Fredericksburg. Gen. McLaws knows as
much, perhaps, Of this battle as any man
living, as it was his division that was sta
toned in Fredericksburg to resist the Fed
erals, who were attempting to cross, and
finally did cross, in such vast numbers. The
lecture was listened to attentively through
cut, and gave many interesting details
winch one fails to get in history. He spoke
beautifully of Gen. Thomas r. r. Cobb, the
soldier and statesman, and said that had he
lived, his fame would have equaled, nay
surpassed, that of Stonewall Jackson's.
M. V. Day, a prominent and intelligent
practical miller of Ebert county, says that
in grinding Western corn shipped to that
county he frequently finds pieces of broken
glass in the corn, and that his observation
has not been confined to one lot of corn, but
to various lots from different points He
says further that he knows of a number of
horses and mules that have died in Ebert
county from eating perfectly sound Western
corn, and that he has examined some of the
corn eaten by them and found particles of
glass in it. Mr. Day thinks that as there
are so many mills in the county that have
no appliance for cleaning corn, and so much
of it fed to stock, that the matter ought to
done.
ern eapifali1lN have been IN Americas con-
sl1ltip@ tElth loNf 1apifalists with view of
el<1Al ti1 q Urge guano factory and cot
tOh 4esa ~ NM They have met with suf-
U1le1lf t1colirag cement to insure the location
81 fli6 factory there, and as soon as the
cpu1pany is organized and the site selected
work will begin in earnest. Last week a
Wisconsin capitalist was at Americas seek
ing desirable location for $500, 900 cotton
factory. After being shown the city's
many advantages he expressed himself well
pleased with Americas. Manufacturing en-
terprises of every kind would pay hand
somely there, and the people anxious for
them.
A fearful hail storm passed near Chero-
kee Corner'last Thursday evening. II struck
MIR. A. =. Dorsey's place in Clarke county
and literally ruined his fine crop of corn
and cotton. Then in its easterly course it
struck the farms of r. J. Tuck and r. f.
billiard Mr.. billiard says he will probably
have to plant the whole of his crop over,
both corn and cotton. None suffered worse
than d. j. Caruthers, whose farm was i'm
mediately in its track, and as he was nearly
done chopping out his cotton, his crop suf-
fered fearfully Besides these, Messrs. Pope,
Draper Gaulding, Hail. Wilkins and others
had portions of their crops badly damaged
The hail fell for nearly 10 minutes with ter
rible fury and covered the ground, and in
many places where it drifted it lay in great
piles.
Leary Courier: Last Monday while Mr..
Keel, who lives near here, and is great
smoker, was cleaning out his pipe with his
pccketknife he let the knife fall from his
hand, and in falling the blade stuck into the
calf of his right leg and by some means was
forced into the flesh up to the hilt. The
knife was extracted, but the wound did not
bleed drop, notwithstanding it was deep
one, and after he had it bandaged Mr. Keel
went to his field and went to blowing. Late
in the evening he tainted from exhaustion
and became completely unconscious, in
which condition he has remained up to this
writing. DR.. George ascribes the peculiar
phase of Mr.. Keel's illness to nicotine,
which was introduced into the blood along
with the knife blade. This is very I'M
usual case.
ment now on foot to establish a
large cotton mill at Dalton for the
manufacture of both white and checked
goods. A gentleman of Providence, r. L.,
who has had thirty years experience in cot
ton milling, says that he can command a
capital of 100000, if Dalton will subscribe
$50, 900 to build a new cotton factory The
mill will contain $50 looms and all the
latest improved machinery for the manu-
facture of cotton goods, with an extensive
dyeing apparatus in connection. The sub
scription book was opened Wednesday, and
already about $4,000 has been subscribed
by gentlemen of Dalton, and it is not at all
improbable that even more than the desig-
mated 10000 can be raised with but little
difficulty.
There is an old Indian tradition to the eff
feet that in a cave, half mile south of the
big spring, near Calhoun, can be found a sill
yer mine unsurpassed in quality and quantity
That the Indians used TO go into the cave
and cut the silver out with their toma-
hawks, and that when forced TO leave this
country they rolled large stone from the
mountain above and with it closed the en-
trance. This cave Is on the lands of l.. l.,
Bennett, but has never been entered by a
pale face on account of the great rock,
which weighs several tons; and stands
guard over the untold treasure
1t is Mr.. Benefits intention as
soon as the crops are laid, to remove the
rock and explore the cave. There is every
evidence of the truth of the statement that
the rock was placed there by the hand of
man On the side of the mountain is a